1943 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Incumbents
- High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael
- Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
- Prime Minister of Transjordan - Tawfik Abu al-Huda
Events
- 18 February – World War II : The Polish Anders Army arrive in Palestine, where many Polish Jews, including Menachem Begin, desert to work on establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. This becomes known as the 'Anders Aliyah'.
- 12 May – The founding of the kibbutz Gvulot.
- 1 – 20 November Lehi members flee from the Latrun Detention Camp through a 70 meter long tunnel.
- December – The founding of the kibbutz Yad Mordechai.
Notable births
- 2 January - Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television host and newsreader (died 2017)
- 1 March – Benny Begin, Israeli geologist and politician
- 9 April - Uri Gil, Israeli Air Force officer
- 30 April – Ze'ev Boim, Israeli politician and Knesset member (died 2011)
- 30 April – Nechemya Cohen, Israeli army officer, the most decorated soldier in the history of the IDF (died 1967)
- 7 May - Herzl Bodinger, Israeli Air Force commander
- 18 May - Gershon Shefa, Israeli Olympic swimmer
- 19 May - Yosef Ahimeir, Israeli politician and journalist
- 2 June - Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Israeli rabbi, chief rabbi of Kfar Chabad (died 2015)
- 8 June - Uri Davis, Israeli academic and anti-Zionist political activist
- 12 June - Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Israeli psychology professor
- 2 August - Uzi Landau, Israeli politician
- 5 August - Uri Sagi, Israeli general
- 18 September - Issak Tavior, Israeli pianist, composer, and conductor
- 25 September - Yoav Gelber, Israeli historian
- 7 October - Yoram Globus, Israeli film producer and cinema owner
- 26 October - Ron Ben-Yishai, Israeli journalist
- 8 November - Boaz Davidson, Israeli film director, producer, and screenwriter
- 22 November - Naomi Blumenthal, Israeli politician
- 12 December – Hanan Porat, former Israeli politician (died 2011)
- 18 December – Hanoch Levin, Israeli playwright, theater director, author and poet (died 1999)
- Full date unknown
- Yekutiel Gershoni, Israeli historian and paralympic champion
- Dina Porat, Israeli historian
- Tanya Reinhart, Israeli linguist and peace activist (died 2007)
- Mubarak Awad, Palestinian Arab, Arab-American psychologist and political activist
Notable deaths
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